[Samba] Re: Change time causes profile corruption

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Danny Paul wrote:
| Jerry,
|
| In this particular instance, the user received the
| files via email from an external source, so it's
| really hard to say exactly why the date is 0.  I
| can be sure, however, that the date is like that
| on the file before it enters our network.

The mtime really only has relevance in the context of
a file system.

...
| Also I've been thinking, it's possible that the mtime
| is actually maxed out as opposed to blank.  Perhaps Linux
| is looking at it as a negative number using 2's
| complement arithmetic while Windows is looking at it as a
| positive number.
|
| Anyway, I'm beat.  I have no idea what to do about
| those stupid things.  I suppose I could write a cron job
| to touch any files with that date?  What say you?

Could you send me a level 10 debug from smbd of the
file with a 0 mtime getting created ?  I've got a
feeling something else is going on here.




cheers, jerry
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